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Tris(1-4-eta 4-anthracene)niobate(1-), the first polyaromatic hydrocarbon complex of niobium
William W Brennessel1, John E Ellis, Sergey N Roush
1Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 15, 2002
Abstract:
The first tris(arene)niobium complex, [Nb(1-4-eta 4-anthracene)3]-, has been obtained by the sodium or potassium anthracene reduction of NbCl4(THF)2, structurally characterized by X-ray analysis and shown to undergo facile anthracene displacement reactions in the presence of excess CO, PF3, 1,3,5,7-cyclooctatetraene and P(OMe)3.